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Star Trek: Section 31
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Genre
Written byCraig Sweeny
Directed byOlatunde Osunsanmi
Starring
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
Production location
Toronto, Canada
CinematographyGlen Keenan
Production companies
Original release
NetworkParamount+
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Star Trek: Section 31 is an upcoming American

Star Trek Universe. A spin-off from the series Star Trek: Discovery, the film follows Philippa Georgiou, who is an agent of Section 31, a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets
.

Toronto, Canada
, from January to March 2024.

Star Trek: Section 31 is expected to be released on the streaming service Paramount+.

Premise

Emperor

Philippa Georgiou joins Section 31, a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets, and must face the sins of her past.[1]

Cast

Production

Background

During production on the

CBS Television Studios to expand the Star Trek franchise beyond Discovery to several new series, miniseries, and animated series.[9] Yeoh was in talks to star in a spin-off series by November, which was expected to follow her character's Section 31 storyline.[2]

The streaming service

Toronto, Canada, like Discovery, but it was "a good couple of years away",[13] with Kurtzman expecting it to be released in 2021 or 2022.[12] Yeoh confirmed that she was working on the series the next month.[3] Kurtzman said Discovery's writers were aware that their portrayal of Section 31 was inconsistent with the organization's introduction in the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the spin-off would show its evolution from their version to its original depiction, specifically why it becomes an "underground organization".[14] Kurtzman cited Killing Eve and the Mission: Impossible franchise as influences and said Georgiou would be "a protagonist who's entirely unreliable. At the end of the day, she's going to do the right thing, but in the exact wrong way."[15] In July, Shazad Latif indicated that he could be reprising his Discovery role of Ash Tyler in the spin-off.[16] A writers' room had been established by the end of November, and Kurtzman said the completed pilot script "occupies an area of the Trek universe that's never really been explored geographically. It has a new mythology to it". He also compared the series to the film Unforgiven (1992).[17]

By the end of January 2020, the series was set to be filmed from May to November 2020,

ViacomCBS announced that CBS All Access would be expanded and rebranded as Paramount+.[26]

The third season of Discovery writes out Georgiou in the two-part episode "

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as the next two Star Trek series.[31] No further announcements had been made by January 2023, when Paramount Streaming's chief programming officer Tanya Giles said the spin-off was still in development.[32]

Development

In March 2023, after revealing that Discovery would be ending with its

Academy Award for her role in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) and her schedule would likely get much busier. He and other executives had already been interested in expanding the franchise to event projects and were concerned about oversaturating the franchise with too many ongoing television series.[34]

Production on the film was initially expected to begin in late 2023,

USS Enterprise-C.[38] Sweeny said viewers would not need to recognise Garrett to enjoy the film, as he wanted there to be a "low barrier of entry" for new fans. He also discussed concerns about making a film focused on Section 31, acknowledging that the idea was "almost antagonistic to some of the values of Star Trek" but feeling that there was room in Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's vision for the franchise to have people who do not want to work together on the bridge of a Starfleet ship.[6]

Filming

Filming began at

better source needed] Production on Section 31 was expected to take six weeks, ending on March 13;[39] Kazinsky announced the end of filming on March 21, and revealed that Joe Pingue, Miku Martineau, and Augusto Bitter were also part of the cast.[40]

Music

In January 2020, Discovery composer Jeff Russo expressed interest in also composing the score for Section 31, but said that may not be possible due to his workload and the large number of Star Trek series being produced around the same time. He suggested that he could oversee other composers for Section 31 and other series if Kurtzman asked him to.[41]

Release

Star Trek: Section 31 is expected to be released on the streaming service Paramount+ in the United States and all other countries where the service is available.[5]

Future

In March 2024, Yeoh said she was open to making a sequel if the first film was successful.[6]

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